[OE-core] [PATCH] insane: detect and warn about relocations in .text

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 11:24:12AM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net>

Can you add a bit longer description of possible issues with relocations
in .text? So that people seeing this issue will know how dangerous it is
for them?

From my understanding (after reading
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/pic-fix-guide.xml) it's mostly
performance issue?

Cheers,

> ---
> This requires qa.elf.run_objdump() so needs to be applied after the
> patch which adds that function.
> 
>  meta/classes/insane.bbclass |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
> index 5848ab4..ff35ed8 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/insane.bbclass
> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def package_qa_get_machine_dict():
>  
>  
>  # Currently not being used by default "desktop"
> -WARN_QA ?= "ldflags useless-rpaths rpaths unsafe-references-in-binaries unsafe-references-in-scripts staticdev libdir"
> +WARN_QA ?= "ldflags useless-rpaths rpaths unsafe-references-in-binaries unsafe-references-in-scripts staticdev libdir textrel"
>  ERROR_QA ?= "dev-so debug-deps dev-deps debug-files arch la2 pkgconfig la perms dep-cmp"
>  
>  ALL_QA = "${WARN_QA} ${ERROR_QA}"
> @@ -421,6 +421,30 @@ def package_qa_check_desktop(path, name, d, elf, messages):
>          for l in output:
>              messages.append("Desktop file issue: " + l.strip())
>  
> +QAPATHTEST[textrel] = "package_qa_textrel"
> +def package_qa_textrel(path, name, d, elf, messages):
> +    """
> +    Check if the binary contains relocations in .text
> +    """
> +
> +    if not elf:
> +        return
> +
> +    if os.path.islink(path):
> +        return
> +
> +    phdrs = elf.run_objdump("-p", d)
> +    sane = True
> +
> +    import re
> +    textrel_re = re.compile("\s+TEXTREL\s+")
> +    for line in phdrs.split("\n"):
> +        if textrel_re.match(line):
> +	   sane = False
> +
> +    if not sane:
> +        messages.append("ELF binary '%s' has relocations in .text" % path)
> +
>  QAPATHTEST[ldflags] = "package_qa_hash_style"
>  def package_qa_hash_style(path, name, d, elf, messages):
>      """
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
> 
> 
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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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